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Tuesday, December 8th, 2020
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online Event
Exoplanets as New Sub-GeV Dark Matter Detectors
Rebecca Leane, SLAC,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Inaugural IDEAS Lecture

Online Event
Point of Care, Everywhere!
Axel Scherer, Bernard A. Neches Professor of Electrical Engineering, Medical Engineering, Applied Physics and Physics, Caltech,
Tuesday, December 8th, 2020
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Laser Safety Training

Online Event
10:30am – 10:45am
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Worklife Wellness Break - Chair Yoga

Online Event
11:00am – 12:15pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Online Event
Light activated matter: from sustainability to quantum information science
Giulia Galli, Liew Family Professor of Molecular Engineering & Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Online Event
Seasons in Titan's lower stratosphere
Melody Sylvestre, Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

Online Event
Critical points of volume functionals
Antoine Song, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
2:00pm – 2:15pm
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Worklife Wellness Break - Chair Yoga

Online Event
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Diffraction Training

Online Event
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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BMB Fall Rotation Seminar

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Wednesday, December 9th, 2020
8:00am – 12/11 11:59pm
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Final Examinations for Fall Term

10:30am – 10:45am
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Worklife Wellness Break - Chair Yoga

Online Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Online Event
This seminar has been postponed.
Konstantin Sonin, John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Online Event
Learning Sparse Non-Gaussian Graphical Models
Rebecca Morrison, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Diversifying by Power: Why We Need Antiracist, Feminist Leadership with Dr. Jennie C. Stephens

Online Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
The definable content of (co)homological invariants II: definable cohomology and homotopy classification
Jeffrey Bergfalk, Kurt Gödel Research Center, University of Vienna,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Online Event
Leveraging Cyclophane and 1,2,3-Triazole Synthesis to Prospect for Novel Atropisomeric Scaffolds, Fluorophores, and Colorimetric Sensors
Ronald Brisbois, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Macalester College,
1:30pm – 2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Informal Seminar

Online Event
The Double Copy of Electric-Magnetic Duality
Uri Kol, NYU,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Weekly SURF Drop-in Sessions for Undergrads

Online Event
2:00pm – 2:15pm
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Worklife Wellness Break - Chair Yoga

Online Event
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Lab Safety Orientation Training

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Online Event
Exoplanet Imaging with Extremely Large Telescopes
Rebecca Jensen-Clem, Assistant Professor, UC Santa Cruz,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Caltech Associates: Powering the Future with AI

Online Event
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Watson Lecture - The Inner Life of the Brain: Fear, Sex, and Violence

Online Event
David J. Anderson, Seymour Benzer Professor of Biology; Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience Leadership Chair; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Director, Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience, Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech,
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Thursday, December 10th, 2020
9:00am – 9:55am
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Analysis Seminar

Online Event
The hole event for Gaussian complex zeros and the emergence of quadrature domains
Aron Wennman, Department of Mathematics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology,
10:30am – 11:30am
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Radioactive Sealed Sources Training

Online Event
10:30am – 10:45am
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Worklife Wellness Break - Chair Yoga

Online Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Online Event
Revealing Hidden Dimensions in Soft Materials (or How to Play a Chord on a Rheometer)
James W. Swan, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering,, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Nothing's the Same – Grief and Renewal

Online Event
  • Internal Event
2:00pm – 2:15pm
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Worklife Wellness Break - Chair Yoga

Online Event
2:30pm – 4:00pm
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Radioactive Material Handling Training

Online Event
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

Online Event
"Cardiac neural crest plasticity and its application to mending congenital heart defects"
Shashank Gandhi (Bronner Group), Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Online Event
Microstructure-Enabled Plasticity in Nano-to-Microscale Materials
Haolu (Jane) Zhang, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Winter Course Preparation Office Hours 12/10/2020

Friday, December 11th, 2020
All Day
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End of Fall Term

10:00am – 11:00am
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Science Journey: "From Pencil Lead to Skyscrapers: Building the Future with Carbon Nanomaterials"

Online Event
Michael Mazza, Graduate Student, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Caltech,
  • Public Event
10:30am – 10:45am
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Worklife Wellness Break - Chair Yoga

Online Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Online Event
Structure, Dynamics and Degradation of Batteries - From LCO, NCA and NMC-811 to New Materials to Enable Fast Charging
Clare P. Grey, Fellow Pembroke College Cambridge; Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professor in Materials Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge,
12:00pm – 2:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science

Online Event
Human, Scientist
Jennifer Jahner, Professor of English (HSS),
Kriti Sharma, Postdoctoral Scholar (GPS),
Charles Xu, Graduate Student in Physics (PMA),
Maura Dykstra, Assistant Professor of History (HSS),
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Neuro Afternoon Meeting via Zoom

David Khan, Postdoctoral Scholar, BBE, Caltech,
Yue Xu, Graduate Student, Computation and Neural Systems, Caltech,
Iman Wahle, Scholar, Schmidt Academy for Software Engineering,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online Event
Angular momentum in Einstein-Maxwell theory
Alexander Grant, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Physics, University of Virginia,
2:00pm – 2:15pm
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Worklife Wellness Break - Chair Yoga

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Saturday, December 12th, 2020
8:00am – 1/3 11:59pm
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Winter Recess

Monday, December 14th, 2020
10:30am – 10:45am
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Worklife Wellness Break - Chair Yoga

Online Event
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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A Conversation with Distinguished Alumnus Charles T. Munger (CERT '44, CAVU)

  • Public Event
2:00pm – 2:15pm
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Worklife Wellness Break - Chair Yoga

Online Event
5:30pm – 6:00pm
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Chanukah Zoom Celebration and Menorah Lighting

Online Event
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap

Online Event
"Fantastic Meteors and Where to Find Them" and "What the Arrokoth (MU69) Flyby Teaches Us About Planet Formation"
Auriane Egal, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Western Ontario,
Andrew Youdin, Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Arizona,
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Tuesday, December 15th, 2020
10:00am – 10:50am
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Online Event
Uncertain signs
Emanuel Carneiro, Mathematics Section, ICTP,
10:00am – 11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Online Event
"Multiscale, data-driven and nonlocal modeling of granular materials"
Konstantinos Karapiperis, Graduate Student, Applied Mechanics, Caltech,
10:30am – 10:45am
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Worklife Wellness Break - Chair Yoga

Online Event
11:00am – 11:50am
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Online Event
Zero sets of Laplace eigenfunctions
Aleksandr Logunov, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

Online Event
Phase transitions in hyperbolic space
Tom Hutchcroft, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge,
2:00pm – 2:15pm
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Worklife Wellness Break - Chair Yoga

Online Event
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

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"Assuring Safety under Uncertainty in Learning-Based Control Systems"
Richard Cheng, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Science in a Political World: a conversation with Dr. David Baltimore and Dr. France Córdova

Wednesday, December 16th, 2020
9:00am – 9:01am
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Due Date for Instructors' Final Grade Reports

10:30am – 10:45am
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Worklife Wellness Break - Chair Yoga

Online Event
11:00am – 11:45am
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Conversations on COVID-19: Why Masks Work

Online Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Classification of extension of C*-algebras and K-homology
Martino Lupini, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Victoria University of Wellington,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Monthly Caregivers' Group

Online Event
  • Internal Event
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Online Event
Density Fluctuations and Machine Learning in Active Matter
Austin Dulaney, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Weekly SURF Drop-in Sessions for Undergrads

Online Event
2:00pm – 2:15pm
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Worklife Wellness Break - Chair Yoga

Online Event
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Winter Course Preparation Office Hours 12/16/2020

7:00pm – 8:00pm
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Alpine Club Talks- Winter Gear Maintenance by Nick Abel

Online Event
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