Institute Calendar
June 2025
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6/6
11:59pm
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6/3
11:59pm
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Sunday, June 1st, 2025
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, June 2nd, 2025
10:30am
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11:30am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Hunterine A and Progress Toward the Synthesis of Kuroshine A
Elliot Hicks,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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SOIL Seminar
Developing phytoremediation and biofortification strategies with alternative crops in naturally contaminated soils
Dr. Gary Bañuelos,
USDA - Agricultural Research Service,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
Hoimin Jung,
Resnick Postdoctoral Fellow,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Mechanisms of Pharmacological and Cellular Regulators of Mitophagy
William Rosencrans,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
1:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Development of Ion Conducting Polymer Temperature Sensors
Nicole Higdon,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Spatially Resolved Galactic Winds at Cosmic Noon / ALMA+JWST Discovers Companions at < 18 kpc Around z~3.5 Radio AGN
Dr. Keerthi Vasan,
JWST Postdoctoral Fellow,
Carnegie Observatories,
Dr. Wuji Wang,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Caltech IPAC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Bottlebrush Block Copolymer Prevents Disease Onset in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Frank S. Bates,
Professor,
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science University of Minnesota, and Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Gabe Kwong
Building Synthetic Immunity: Designing T Cells to Measure, Detect, and Treat Cancer
Gabe Kwong,
Associate Professor,
Biomedical Engineering,
Georgia Tech School of Engineering and Emory School of Medicine,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Expanding the Chemical Space of Hemoproteins: Engineering Hemoproteins for Unnatural C–N Bond Construction
Ziyang Qin,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Social Sciences History Seminar
This seminar has been postponed.
Menaka Hampole,
Assistant Professor of Finance,
Yale School of Management,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Ab initio surface chemistry and reaction dynamics
Timothy C Berkelbach,
Associate Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
"On the origin and dynamical evolution of Jupiter's inner moons" & "Categorization of thermal moonquakes recorded in Apollo 17 lunar seismic data using cross-correlation and diurnal temperature variations"
Ian Brunton,
Graduate Student,
Department of Planetary Science,
Caltech,
Yuri Tamama,
Graduate Student,
Department of Geophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
A Computer-Assisted Proof of Singularity Formation in the 3D Euler Equations
Thomas Y. Hou,
Computing & Mathematical Sciences Department,
Caltech,
Wednesday, June 4th, 2025
8:00am
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6/6
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10:00am
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11:00am
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Informal Seminar - Hirotaka Toh & Kotaro Tomuro
Local translation atlas revealed by APEX-Ribo-Seq/Anatomy of footprint extension in ribosome profiling reveals a conformational landscape of ribosomes in bacteria
Hirotaka Toh,
RIKEN Special Postdoctoral Researcher,
Iwasaki RNA Systems,
Kotaro Tomuro,
RIKEN Junior Research Associate,
Iwasaki RNA Systems,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Continuous Hyperfiniteness
Hyung Mook Kang,
Mathematics Department,
University of North Texas,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Maximum information divergence from linear and toric models
Yulia Alexandr,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Marcel van den Brink
Microbiome and thymic regeneration in cancer immunotherapy
Marcel van den Brink,
President,
President, City of Hope Los Angeles and National Medical Center,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CCE: Beckman Lecture
Protein Editing
Alanna Schepartz,
Professor or Chemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology,
College of Chemistry,
University of California, Berkeley,
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Understanding and Engineering Plant-Microbe Interactions for Sustainable Agriculture
Gozde Demirer,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
New Microscopes for Critical Insights into Metals Manufacturing
Leora Dresselhaus-Marais,
Assistant Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
Stanford University,
Thursday, June 5th, 2025
10:00am
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6/6
5:00pm
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Visual Culture Program Event
Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
Anthropocene Media Working Group II
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:30pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Neoproterozoic Climate Constraints: Sedimentological and Geochemical Evidence for Cryogenian Snowball and Ediacaran Hothouse States
Kristin Bergmann,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Scienes,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
The Geometric Shafarevich Conjecture for Exceptional Shimura Varieties
Ananth Shankar,
Department of Mathematics,
Northwestern University,
Friday, June 6th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Confining light to the sub-atomic scale: watching atoms, electrochemistry, catalysis, and sensing
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Chemistry Senior Thesis Symposium
Jessie Gan,
Senior,
Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
Luke Zhou,
Senior,
Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Two birds with one stone: a unified model of cosmic ray propagation and radio extreme scattering events
Philipp Kempski,
Lyman Spitzer, Jr. Postdoctoral Fellow,
Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences,
Princeton University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
A theory of anisotropic varifolds
Joshua Flynn,
Department of Mathematics,
MIT,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Informal Seminar - Jonas Schluter
Evolutionary Medicine for the Microbiome
Jonas Schlüter,
Assistant Professor,
Microbiology,
NYU Langone Health,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Characterization of Key Intermediates in Fe-Catalyzed Cyanide Reduction
Seungju Kang,
Graduate Student (Peters Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, June 7th, 2025
8:00am
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6/10
11:59pm
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Monday, June 9th, 2025
9:00am
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9:01am
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10:00am
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4:30pm
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10:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Development of Synthetic Methods to Enable the Synthesis of Pyrroloiminoquinone Alkaloids
Samir Rezgui,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Tuesday, June 10th, 2025
9:00am
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11:25am
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10:00am
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4:30pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Transition Metal Catalyzed Methodologies for the Synthesis of Complex Amide Building Blocks
Jay Barbor,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
10:30am
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12:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
"Drops of Jupiter: How stable helium rain layers differentiate Jupiter and Saturn"
Steve Markham,
Tombaugh Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Astronomy,
New Mexico State University,
Wednesday, June 11th, 2025
8:00am
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6/13
11:59pm
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10:00am
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4:30pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Transition Metal Catalyzed Approaches to the Stereoselective Construction of All-Carbon Quaternary Centers
Farbod Moghadam,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Election Science Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech Election Integrity Project
Online Event
Securing Elections
Kim Wyman,
Senior Fellow, Elections Project at the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC); President, ESI Consulting,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Revisiting Decades -Old Chemistry and Physics to Improve Modern Molecular Imaging
Warren S. Warren,
James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Duke University,
3:00pm
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4:15pm
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3:00pm
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6:30pm
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