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Thursday, October 25th, 2018
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Teaching Old Active Sites New Tricks
Justin Notestein, Associate Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar

Baxter B125
Capital Market Anomalies and Quantitative Research
Justin Birru, Associate Professor, Fisher School of Business, Ohio State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Water Isotopes: Windows into Earth's Past, Present, and Future Atmosphere
Sylvia Dee, Assistant Professor, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Rice University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Generalization of Dasgupta's factorization formula of p-adic Rankin L-series
Aprameyo Pal, Mathematics Department, Universität Duisburg-Essen,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Elements of a topological quantum computer
Felix von Oppen, Professor of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin,
Friday, October 26th, 2018
10:00am – 11:00am
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Ask OK Go

Beckman Auditorium
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
On the phase diagram of SU(N)xSU(N) gauge theory with bifundamental fermion
Aver Karasik, Weizmann Institute,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Course Ombuds Training and Lunch - Fall 2018

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Nanoengineered Materials and Interfaces for Quantum Technologies
Pankaj Jha, Postdoctoral Scholar, Atwater Group,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar

Baxter 125
Universal growth in production economies
Simina Brânzei, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Purdue University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar

Linde Hall 255
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2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
How stellar feedback and cosmic rays shape galaxies and their halos
Tsang Keung Chan, Graduate Student, Department of Physics, UC San Diego,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 255
Holomorphic retracts of Teichmuller space
Dmitri Gekhtman, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Engineering Tiny Space Systems: From ChipSats to Starships
Zachary Manchester, Assistant Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University,
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Let's Talk

North Mudd B114F
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Graduate Student Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
An overview of the Braverman-Kazhdan-Ngo's approach to L-functions
Jize Yu, Mathematics Department, Caltech,
6:00pm – 9:00pm
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CPA Social

Sherman Fairchild Library, Amphitheatre
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Center for Student Services, Lobby
Saturday, October 27th, 2018
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Cross Country) Caltech at SCIAC Championships

11:00am – 2:00pm
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(Men's Soccer) Whittier vs. Caltech

11:00am – 2:00pm
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(Men's Water Polo) Alumni Game vs. Caltech

12:30pm – 3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kohn/Rivera Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm – 3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Garcia Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm – 7:00pm
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(Women's Volleyball) Caltech at Occidental

7:00pm – 10:00pm
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(Women's Soccer) Caltech at Whittier

Monday, October 29th, 2018
8:50am – 12:30pm
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Short Course: Exploring Once-in-a-Lifetime Targets

South Mudd 365
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 387
On rigid varieties with projective reduction
Shizang Li, Mathematics Department, Columbia University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Emotional Intelligence Toolkit: Workshop on Open-Mindedness

Avery Library
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Chemically caving into climate: Desert, permafrost, and monsoon
Gideon Henderson, Professor of Earth Sciences, Oceanography, Climate and Palaeoenvironment, University of Oxford,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Significant Excess of Electron-Like Events in the MiniBooNE Short-Baseline Neutrino Experiment
En-Chuan Huang, LANL,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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KELLER Colloquium in Computing & Mathematical Sciences

Annenberg 105
Randomized algorithms for accelerating matrix computations
Gunnar Martinsson, Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford, Visiting Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119
"Understanding the Genetic Basis for Biological Patterning from the Bottom Up"
Pulin Li, Postdoctoral Fellow, Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech,
6:00pm – 7:00pm
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CPA STEM for Families

Moore 239
Tuesday, October 30th, 2018
9:30am – 10:30am
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Fire Extinguisher Training

12:00pm – 12:50pm
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Meditation Mob

Caltech Hall 9th Floor
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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STEminar: Dr. Raul Navarro

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
12:30pm – 3:30pm
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Flu Shot Clinic for Faculty, Postdoc and Staff

Avery Dining Hall
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107
Protected entanglement in black holes
Isaac Kim, Stanford University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Green Chemistry Awareness in Drug Discovery
Aaron Siegmund, Senior Scientist, Amgen Inc.,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Optical Nanomaterials: Chirality, Refractive Index, and Applications to Solar Energy Conversion
Vivian Ferry, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Ultrafast and Non Equilibrium Lattice Dynamics
David A. Reis, Deputy Director of the Stanford PULSE Institute and Professor of Applied Physics and Photon Science, Department of Applied Physics and Photon Science, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CMI Seminar

Annenberg 314
Combining and Comparing Experiments
Omer Tamuz, Assistant Professor of Economics and Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
The Origin of the Moon Within a Terrestrial Synestia
Simon Lock, Postdoc, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium
"Algorithmic and Architectural Foundations for Programmable Molecular Machines: DNA Robots, Information-Processing Circuits, and Reconfigurable Nanostructures"
Lulu Qian, Assistant Professor, Biology & Biological Engineering, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Some unknown unknowns, and some known unknowns in the Standard Model EFT
Michael Trott, University of Copenhagen and CERN VISC,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Let's Walk

Counseling Center
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

Linde Hall 310
Discrete groups, Lyapunov exponents, and Hodge theory
Simion Filip, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University ,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Quantum Measurement and Ontology
Jeff Barrett, Chancellor’s Professor, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, UC Irvine,
6:00pm – 8:30pm
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Caltech - City of Hope Biomedical Research Initiative Symposium

Off Campus
6:00pm – 7:00pm
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Postdoctoral Math Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Quaternionic Automorphic Forms
Zavosh Amir Khosravi, Mathematics Department, Caltech,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Center for Student Services, Lobby
Wednesday, October 31st, 2018
8:00am – 11/6 5:00pm
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Midterm Examination Period

10:00am – 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Annenberg 322
Approximating Edit Distance Within Constant Factor in Truly Sub-Quadratic Time
Michal Koucky, Charles University,
11:00am – 2:00pm
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TechMart Vendor Fair

San Pasqual Walk
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometrization Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 289
Chapter 7-8
Dmirti Gekhtman, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Let's Talk

Annenberg 243
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
NASA's Next Astrophysics Flagship: The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST)
Jason Rhodes, JPL,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Watching metalloenzymes at work
Amie Boal, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Mapping Particulate Air Pollution from Space
David Diner, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Magnetism, Superconductivity and Non-trivial Topology in Quantum Materials
Ni Ni, Assistant Professor, Condensed Matter, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Stochastic Dominance under Independent Noise
Luciano Pomatto, Assistant Professor of Economics, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
5:30pm – 8:30pm
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(Men's Water Polo) La Verne vs. Caltech

7:00pm – 8:00pm
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Alpine Club Talk

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Spooky Tail (Halloween Edition!)
Amina Kinkhabwala, Staff Scientist, Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech,
Jeff Santner, Faculty, Mechanical Engineering, Cal State LA,
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Sergio Pellegrino - Space Solar Power: A New Beginning

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Thursday, November 1st, 2018
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Women's Volleyball) Caltech at SCIAC Postseason Tournament

8:00am – 11/2 5:00pm
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Human Single-Neuron Meeting 2018

Beckman Institute Auditorium
9:00am – 10:00am
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A TIAA Financial Essentials Webinar

Market-Proof Your Retirement
Miguel Shefferson, Director, TIAA Institutional Financial Services,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Recovery of Function in Major Spinal Cord Injury using Spinal Stimulatio
Joel Burdick, Richard L. and Dorothy M. Hayman Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering; Jet Propulsion Laboratory Research Scientist, Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
11:30am – 2:00pm
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Caltech Connect Training

Center for Student Services, 3rd Floor, Brennan Conference Room