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Monday, October 24th, 2022
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar - Merck-Banyu Lectureship

Koji Hirano, Professor, Department of Applied Chemistry, Osaka University,
Kohsuke Ohmatsu, Associate Professor, Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules, Nagoya University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

Interactions and topology in a hybrid transition metal dichalcogenide
Haim Beidenkopf, Professor, CMP Atomic Scale Physics, Weizmann Institute,
Tuesday, October 25th, 2022
12:30pm 1:30pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar

Online Event
The dissipative Aw-Rascle system: existence theory and hard-congestion limit
Ewelina Zatorska, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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Thesis Defense

The Development of Ni-Catalyzed Methods for Application in Total Synthesis
Alexander M. Shimozono, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar

Online Event
Some Recent Results On Wave Turbulence
Minh-Binh Tran, Department of Mathematics, Texas A & M,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Ab initio approaches to nonequilibrium interactions and transport in matter
Prineha Narang, Howard Reiss Development Chair, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Thermal tides in the Martian atmosphere during aphelion season
Siteng Fan, Postdoc, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

(In)efficiency in Information Acquisition and Aggregation through Prices
Xavier Vives, Professor of Economics and Finance, IESE Business School, University of Navarra,
Wednesday, October 26th, 2022
11:00am 12:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Big Ramsey degrees and Galvin-Prikry theorems for binary free-amalgamation classes
Andy Zucker, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Mean-field games
Levon Nurbekyan, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California Los Angeles,
2:00pm 4:00pm
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Mirror Symmetry Seminar

Intrinsic mirror symmetry - Part II
Mark Gross, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge,
3:45pm 4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Electrocatalytic Reduction of Nitrate: Insight from Manipulating Adsorbate Affinity
Kesley A. Stoerzinger, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, Chemical, Biological & Environmental Engineering, Oregon State University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

The Landscape of Relativistic Stellar Explosions
Anna Ho, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Cornell University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Party in the microbe dorms: Microbial element cycling in sediment of the oxygen-deficient Santa Barbara Basin
Tina Treude, UCLA,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Identifying Prediction Mistakes in Observational Data
Ashesh Rambachan, Postdoctoral Researcher, Microsoft Research New England,
Thursday, October 27th, 2022
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Statistical Mechanics of Immiscible Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media
Alex Hansen, Centre Director for PoreLab and Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU),
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine

"In situ Structural Biology Using Cryo-Electron Tomography"
Mohammed Kaplan, Postdoctoral Fellow, Jensen Group,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

Crystallography and Cryo-EM : At odds or in harmony?
Gabriel Lander, Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Scripps,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Alluvial fan formation on Earth and Mars
Claire Mondro, Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Geology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Geometry of the $B_{dR}^+$-Grassmannian
Serin Hong, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Black holes and random matrices
Stephen Shenker, Stanford University,
Friday, October 28th, 2022
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Mentors and Recombinators: Multi-Dimensional Social Learning
Yuval Heller, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University; Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Economics, UC San Diego,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Quantum metrology with general measurements
Tuvia Gefen, Postdoctoral Scholar, Preskill, Brandao Group,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
The mystery of convective boundary mixing in the cores of massive stars
Evan Anders, CIERA Postdoctoral Fellow, CIERA, Northwestern University,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Predictive Unsteady Simulations of High-Speed Turbulent Flows
Lian Duan, Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The Ohio State University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

The (2,1)-cable of the figure-eight knot is not smoothly slice
Sungkyung Kang, Center for Geometry & Physics, Institute of Basic Science,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Christian Johansen, Graduate Student (Peters Research Group), Chemistry, Caltech,
7:00pm 9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Finding Earth 2.0
Dimitri Mawet, Professor, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
  • Public Event
Saturday, October 29th, 2022
Monday, October 31st, 2022
12:00pm 1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar

Controls on porewater calcite dissolution kinetics from novel in-situ dissolution experiments
Holly Barnhart, Graduate Student, Geological and Planetary Sciences,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar

(Real) Wages in the Middle Ages: The Economic Implications of In-Kind Payment on Medieval English Demesnes, 1250-1450
Jordan Claridge, Assistant Professor, Department of Economic History, London School of Economics,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
5D Perspectives on the QCD Axion
Tony Ghergetta, University of Minnesota,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar

Introduction to the Dimer Model, II
Marianna Russkikh, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
3:45pm 4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
The Critical Role of Energy Storage in Advancing Decarbonization
Esther S. Takeuchi, William and Jane Knapp Chair in Energy and the Environment and SUNY Distinguished Professor; Director, Center for Mesoscale Transport, Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Stony Brook University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Online and In-Person Event
Multi-wavelength Laboratories in the Epoch of Reionization
Sofía Rojas, Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

The role of rivers in the global carbon cycle: linking geomorphic and geochemical processes
Marisa Repasch, Postdoctoral Scholar, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado Boulder,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium Series

Green Learning: Methodology, Examples and Outlook
C.-C. Jay Kuo, William M. Hogue Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

Imaging Landau Plasmons and Edge Current in Charge Neutral Graphene via a 7 Tesla Scanning Near-field Optical Microscope
Professor Mengkun Liu, Stony Brook University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Placing People at the Centre of a Just Transition
Dr. Ramit Debnath, Inaugural CambridgeZero Fellow, University of Cambridge,
Tuesday, November 1st, 2022
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

Quantum Wakes, Stirring by staring and other non-equilibrium problems.
Israel Klich, Professor, Theoretical CMP and Quantum Information, University of Virginia,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Discrete Analysis Seminar

An Elekes-Szabo-type theorem in F_p
Yifan Jing, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Clarice Aiello, Assistant Professor, Quantum Biology Tech, University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Jupiter as an air conditioner: how giant planets' weather tells a story from the outside in
Huazhi Ge, Graduate Student, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Santa Cruz,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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History Seminar

The Great Depression as a global crisis, 1927-37: What do we know?
Stefan Link, Associate Professor of History, Dartmouth College,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Multi-Dimensional Screening: Buyer-Optimal Learning And Informational Robustness
Anne-Katrin Roesler, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Toronto,
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2022
11:00am 12:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Analytic complete equivalence relations and their degree spectra
Dino Rossegger, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,