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Friday, October 18th, 2019
All Day
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Women Mentoring Women Applications Due 2019-2020

8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Adding Courses and Removing Conditions and Incompletes

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

Lauritsen 469
Extensions of Kac-Moody algebras and Calabi-Yau singularities.
Miroslav Rapčak, UC Berkeley,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Defect-Level Switching: A New Mechanism for Electronic Devices
Rafael Jaramillo, Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Baxter 125
The Edgeworth Conjecture with Small Coalitions and Approximate Equilibria in Large Economies
Federico Echenique, Allen and Lenabelle Davis Professor of Economics, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Caltech-UCLA Logic Seminar

Quotients by countable subgroups are hyperfinite
Shinko Forte, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
Relativistic outflows in neutron star mergers
Ore Gottlieb, Graduate Student, Department of Astrophysics, Tel Aviv University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
On the Interaction between Mechanics and Chemistry: Two Studies in Electrochemical Energy Storage and Heterogeneous Catalysis
Pradeep Guduru, Professor, Brown University,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Harmonic maps with polynomial growth
Andrea Tamburelli, Department of Mathematics, Rice University,
4:00pm – 4:50pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Singularity formation in incompressible fluids
Tarek Elgindi, Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
7:00pm – 8:30pm
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von Kármán Lecture - Darkness Surrounds Us: The Other 95% of the Universe

Beckman Auditorium
Alina Kiessling, Astrophysicist, JPL,
Jason Rhodes, Astrophysicist, JPL,
  • Public Event
Saturday, October 19th, 2019
8:00am – 11:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Langley Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
10:00am – 6:00pm
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SURF SEMINAR DAY

Beckman Mall
  • Public Event
1:30pm – 5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kazandjian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm – 7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Thomas/Mehra Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:30pm – 7:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Baghdasarian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Perla Batalla: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Sunday, October 20th, 2019
4:00pm – 4:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Chabner Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, October 21st, 2019
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk

Annenberg 105
AI in Space – From Earth Orbit to Mars and Beyond! (JPl)
Steve Chien, Senior Research Scientist, Mission Planning and Execution Section, JPL,
Jagriti Agrawal, Member of Technical Staff, Artificial Intelligence Group, JPL,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Getting Better Sleep Workshop

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room
12:15pm – 12:45pm
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Chair Yoga

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CANCELED: Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Exploring Stable Yet Unusual pi-Electron Materials by Making Use of Phosphorus and Sulfur
Aiko Fukazawa, Professor, iCeMS, Kyoto University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
The Mechanics of Slow Earthquakes and Lab Earthquake Prediction
Chris Marone, Professor, Department of Geosciences, Penn State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
Machine Learning and Dynamical Systems meet in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces.
Boumediene Hamzi, Marie Curie Fellow, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College in London,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Connecting early Universe with Observations: from Primordial Black Holes to Sterile Neutrinos
Volodymyr Takhistov, UCLA,
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019
10:00am – 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Annenberg 322
A proof of the Sensitivity Conjecture
Hao Huang, Assistant Professor, Emory University,
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding B117
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Curve Counting Reading Seminar

Linde Hall 183
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105
Scalable Autonomous Driving in the Urban Core
Peter Carr, Senior Staff Engineer at Argo AI and is responsible for overseeing the tracking and prediction aspects of autonomous vehicles, Argo AI,
12:00pm – 12:50pm
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Meditation Mob

Hameetman Center B122 - Club Room 3
12:05pm – 1:00pm
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Navigating the Interview Process for Summer Internships

Center for Student Services 310 (Career Achievement, Leadership, and Exploration)
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B117
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory in the Verlinde category in positive characteristic
Siddharth Venkatesh, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Understanding coupled nuclear-electronic dynamics near a metal surface
Joseph Subotnik, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Guannan Qu

Annenberg 314
Distributed optimization in multi-agent systems: bridging the gap between centralized and distributed algorithms
Guannan Qu, CMI Postdoc, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
"Earth as an Exoplanet: A Two-dimensional Alien Map" & "Regional Structural Orientation of the Mt. Sharp Group Revealed by In-situ Dip Measurements and Stratigraphic Correlations on the Vera Rubin Ridge"
Siteng Fan, Graduate Student, Planetary Science, Caltech,
Nathan Stein, Graduate Student, Planetary Science, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Fast, "Robust", and Approximately Correct: Estimating Mixed Demand Systems
Bernard Salanie, Professor and Chair, Department of Economics, Columbia University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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William Bennet Munro History Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Contestation and Representation: Community, Conflict, and History in Los Angeles
Lizeth Ramirez, Librarian/Archivist for Los Angeles Communities and Cultures, UCLA,
Dalena Sanderson-Hunter, Librarian/Archivist for Los Angeles Communities and Cultures, UCLA,
Devin Fitzgerald, Curator of Rare Books and History of Printing, UCLA,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Factorization Algebras in Quantum Field Theory Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Basic Examples of Factorization Algebras
Tamir Hemo, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019
10:00am – 11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Paul Nunez, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213
Mitigation of Cascading Failures in Power Systems
Steven H. Low, Gilloon Professor, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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JPL Info-Session: Careers for Postdocs at Caltech and JPL

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar

Linde Hall 187
How large is the outer automorphism group?
Forte Shinko, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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STEMinar: Diana Trujillo

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
12:05pm – 1:00pm
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Resume Rescue

Center for Student Services 310 (Career Achievement, Leadership, and Exploration)
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Lab Safety Orientation Training

Keith Spalding B117
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Hints of the Earliest Galaxies
Steven Furlanetto, Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA),
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Estimation of model parameters using a genetic algorithm
Pieter Houtekamer, Environment Canada,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
"Understanding the Dynamic Evolution of Materials and Interfaces in Batteries"
Matthew T. McDowell, Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Stereoselective Alkene Carbofunctionalization via Radical and Two-Electron Pathways
Tianning Diao, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, New York University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Steady-State Equilibria in Anonymous Repeated Games
Alex Wolitzky, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
5:00pm – 10:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Gates/Wittman Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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Screening of "Paywall: the Business of Scholarship"

Caltech Hall 9th Floor
Thursday, October 24th, 2019
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Accelerating Scale Bridging via Surrogate Modeling
Jaroslaw (Jarek) Knap, Dr., U.S. Army Research Laboratory,
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Radioactive Material Handling

Keith Spalding B117
2:30pm – 3:30pm
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Condensed Mathematics Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Condensed abelian groups and cohomology
Tamir Hemo, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
"Opening Windows Into The Cell: Bringing Structure To Cell Biology Using Cryo-electron Tomography"
Elizabeth Villa, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar

Baxter B125
Heterogeneity and Asset Prices: A Different Approach
Stavros Panageas, Associate Professor of Finance, Anderson School of Management, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Discovery and characterization of a novel prokaryotic nanocompartment in the freshwater cyanobacteria Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942
Robert J. Nichols, Graduate Student, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley,
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Reduced Whitehead groups of algebras over p-adic curves
Nivedita Bhaskhar, Department of Mathematics, USC,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Open Access and the Changing Landscape of Scholarly Communication

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
The ADMX Search for Dark Matter Axions
Gray Rybka, University of Washington,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Understanding "why": The role of causality in cognition
Tobias Gerstenberg, Assistant Professor in Psychology, Stanford University,
Friday, October 25th, 2019
10:00am – 11:00am
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Interactive viewing of Shannon Channel's transmission

Moore B280
Active Sensing for Quickest Event Detection in Networks
Ali Tajer, Associate Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Modular Bootstrap and Tauberian Theorems
Baur Maukhametzhanov, IAS,