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Tuesday, September 29th, 2020
9:00am 4:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemical Biology Virtual Syposium

Online Event
Jennifer Heemstra, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Emory Univerity,
Matthew Disney, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Scripps-FL,
Catherine Grimes, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, U of Delaware,
Tarun Kapoor, Professor, Biochemistry and Chemical Biology, Rockefellar University,
Kate Caroll, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistary, Scripps-FL,
Bryan Dickinson, Associate Professor, Department of Chemstry, U of Chicago,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar via Zoom

"The Neural Basis of Host Seeking in Skin-Penetrating Nematodes."
Elissa Hallem, Professor, Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics, UCLA,
Wednesday, September 30th, 2020
9:00am 10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar

Online Event
The Non-Stochastic Control Problem
Elad Hazan, Professor, Department of Computer Science, Princeton,
10:00am 4:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemical Engineering Symposium

Online Event
Karthish Manthiram, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Arthi Jayaraman, Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,, University of Delaware,
Sujit Datta, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University,
Saad Bhamla, Assistant Professor, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology,
William Tarpeh, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering,, Stanford University,
10:00am 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Online Event
Low-Degree Hardness of Random Optimization Problems
Alexander Wein, Postdoc, NYU,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
The Borel structure of quotient spaces
Ben Miller, Kurt Gödel Research Center, University of Vienna,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Constrained pseudo-market equilibrium
Federico Echenique, Allen and Lenabelle Davis Professor of Economics, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
3:00pm 4:30pm
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Geometric Representation Theory Learning Seminar

Online Event
Overview and motivation
Tamir Hemo, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Online Event
The Commensal Radio Astronomy FAST Survey (CRAFTS)
Di Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture

Online Event
Atmospheric Aerosols with Different Origins: Cities, Forests and the Oceans
Qing Ye, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

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Atmospheric Aerosols with Different Origins: Cities, Forests and the Oceans
Qing Ye, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Magnetism and quantum transport in the kagome lattices of semi-metallic Mn3X
Collin Broholm, Gerhard H. Dieke Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University,
Thursday, October 1st, 2020
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Online Event
Adaptive and Active Architected Lattices for Dynamic Applications
Yifan Wang, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online Event
Bootstrapping quantum gravity
Thomas Hartman, Cornell University,
Friday, October 2nd, 2020
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online Event
Singularities of thermal correlators at strong coupling
Matthew Dodelson, IPMU, University of Tokyo,
12:00pm 2:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science

Online Event
Sitting Down with Uncomfortable Things in the Caltech Archives
  • Internal Event
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Online Event
Controlling Labile Metal Ions in Biological Systems?
Justin J. Wilson, Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online Event
Probing interstellar medium and galaxy evolution with infrared emission lines
Shengqi Yang, Graduate Student, The Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, New York University,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Online Event
Unsteadiness boundaries in supersonic flow over double cones.
Hans Hornung, C. L. "Kelly" Johnson Professor of Aeronautics, Emeritus, GALCIT, California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Online Event
Concordance invariants from the E(-1) spectral sequence
William Ballinger, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,
Saturday, October 3rd, 2020
11:00am 12:00pm
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Monday, October 5th, 2020
10:00am 11:00am
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online Event
Recent results from the Tokai-to-Kamioka (T2K) experiment
Clarence Wret, University of Rochester,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk

Online Event
Roadblocks in AV Development: Simulating Perception Data
Roland Phillipsen, Applied Intuition,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Online Event
Multiway Cluster Robust Double/Debiased Machine Learning
Yuya Sasaki, Associate Professor of Economics, Vanderbilt University,
12:30pm 2:00pm
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Joint Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Number Theory Seminar

Online Event
Stark's Conjectures and Hilbert's 12th Problem
Samit Dasgupta, Department of Mathematics, Duke University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Online Event
Optimization, Control and Learning in Smart Grid
Steven Low, Frank J. Gilloon Professor of Computing + Mathematical Sciences and Electrical Engineering, Engineering & Applied Science, California Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, October 6th, 2020
3:00pm 3:50pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Online Event
Roots of polynomials under repeated differentiation: a nonlocal evolution equation with infinitely many conservation laws (and some universality phenomena)
Stefan Steinerberger, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington,
4:00pm 4:50pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Online Event
Invariant Gibbs measures for the three-dimensional wave equation with a Hartree nonlinearity
Bjorn Bringmann, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Online Event
Two Young Transiting Exoplanets: One Was, One Was Not
Luke Bouma, PhD candidate, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University,
  • Internal Event
Wednesday, October 7th, 2020
9:00am 10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar

Online Event
Regret Optimal-Control
Babak Hassibi, Mose and Lillian S. Bohn Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
10:00am 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Online Event
Lifting with Simple Gadgets and Applications to Circuit and Proof Complexity
Susanna F. de Rezende, Postdoc, Mathematical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Factor of i.i.d. processes and Cayley diagrams
Riley Thornton, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Online Event
The Politics of News Personalization
Anqi Li, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis,
3:00pm 4:30pm
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Geometric Representation Theory Learning Seminar

Online Event
The Geometric Satake Equivalence
Victor Zhang, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Online Event
Extreme UV Emission: Bridging Galaxy Evolution Across Cosmic Time
Danielle Berg, OSU / UT Austin,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Online Event
The Role of Isopycnal Mixing in Ocean Transport
Ryan Abernathy, Columbia University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

The Materials Limits(?) of Gravitational Wave Detection
Rana Adhikari, Professor, Physics, California Institute of Technology,
5:00pm 6:00pm
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Watson Lecture - Can America Have a Safe and Secure Presidential Election?

Online Event
Michael Alvarez, Professor of Political and Computational Social Science, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
  • Public Event
Thursday, October 8th, 2020
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Online Event
Multiphase Fluid-Material Interaction: Cavitation Modeling and Damage Assessment
Kevin Wang, Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Virginia Tech,