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Thursday, November 17th, 2022
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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International Education Week: SURFing in Iceland

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Monthly Caregivers' Meeting

Online Event
  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

West Bridge B157 (CMP Conference Room)
"Many-Body Dynamical Localization"
Victor Galitski, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Maryland,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
  • Public Event
1:30pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Staff Development Series: Holiday Survival Kit

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122
What is the smallest protein that can be identified in a cell without labels?
Christopher Russo, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB),
4:00pm – 9:00pm
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Fall Social and Mentorship Workshop

  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Prospering backyards: Community science for soil lead remediation in Los Angeles
Maru Garcia, Associate Research Scientist, Mineral Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Laser cooling and trapping radioactive atoms and molecules
Andrew Jayich, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar

Baxter B125
Finance and Climate Resilience: Evidence from the 1950s Drought
Rodney Ramcharan, Professor of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, USC,
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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The Lee F. Browne Dining Hall Naming Celebration

Lee F. Browne Dining Hall (formerly the Harry Chandler Dining Hall)
  • Public Event
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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The Secret Life of Park Rangers: Adventures in Mount Rainier National Park by Tina Seeger

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Friday, November 18th, 2022
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Random Matrix Spectroscopy and Quantum Gravity
Clifford Johnson, University of Southern California,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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International Education Week: Women, Life, Freedom: Students on the Frontline of Iran's Uprisings

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Three diamond quantum processors, Two entangled links, One multi-node quantum network
Sophie Hermans, AWS Quantum Postdoctoral Scholar, Faraon Group,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Mathematical Physiology Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 183
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Roadmapping the Future of Technology: In Space and on Earth
Olivier de Weck, Professor, Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Online Event
Does the Jones polynomial of a knot detect the unknot? A novel approach via braid group representations and class numbers of number fields
Amitesh Datta, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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▶︎ Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
Saturday, November 19th, 2022
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Glee & Chamber Singers Concert

Ramo Auditorium
Sunday, November 20th, 2022
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Glee & Chamber Singers Concert

Ramo Auditorium
Monday, November 21st, 2022
10:45am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online Event
Cosmological Bootstrap in Slow Motion
Sadra Jazayeri, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Program Tech Talk

Annenberg 105
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Online and In-Person Event
Investigating Local Environments of Fast Radio Bursts
Alexandra Mannings, University of California Santa Cruz,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
History of the Solar Nebula from Meteorite Paleomagnetism
Benjamin Weiss, Professor of Planetary Sciences, Chair of the Program in Planetary Sciences, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Unifying Quantum Spin Liquids and Preparing Quantum Spin Lakes
Ruben Verresen, Quantum Condensed Matter, Harvard University,
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Laser Safety Training

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

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Zhuoran Qiao, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Diffraction Training

Online Event
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech Grad & Postdoc Thanksgiving Celebrations 2022: Social Activities

Beckman Auditorium
3:30pm – 4:30pm
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Informal NB & CNS Seminar | Tansel Baran Yasar - Tuesday, November 22, 2022 - 3:30 pm

Chen 100
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Exploring the Occurrence Rate of Small Short-Period Planets Orbiting A-type Stars
Steven Giacalone, Graduate Student, Department of Astronomy, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

Linde Hall 310
Recent progress on metric SYZ conjecture
Yang Li, Department of Mathematics, MIT,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter Lecture Hall
The geometry of consumer preference aggregation
Fedor Sandomirskiy, Linde Institute Postdoctoral Instructor in Economics, Caltech,
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2022
1:30pm – 2:30pm
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Personal Emergency Preparedness Training

Online Event
6:30pm – 8:30pm
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▶︎ Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
Thursday, November 24th, 2022
8:00am – 11/25 5:00pm
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Thanksgiving (Institute holiday)

9:00am – 11/25 4:00pm
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
Monday, November 28th, 2022
12:00pm – 12:50pm
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Caltech Chamber Music Lunch Concert

Dabney Hall, Lounge
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CPET Seminar

Online Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar - CANCELLED

Jorgensen 109
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3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Introduction to the dimer model, III
Marianna Russkikh, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
3:45pm – 4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Chemical Manipulation of Iron-Sulfur Clusters
Daniel L. M. Suess, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Online and In-Person Event
Opening the new frontier of Gravitational Wave Paleontology
Floor Broekgaarden, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Origin of life-essential volatiles in the rocky bodies of the inner Solar System
Damanveer S. Grewal, Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Geochemistry, Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
From Non-Local Variational Problems to Non-Local Conservation Laws
Qiang Du, Fu Foundation Professor of Applied Mathematics, Department of Applied Physics & Applied Mathematics, Columbia University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online Event
On detecting equatorial symmetry breaking with LISA
Kwinten Fransen, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

Linde Hall 310
Random graphs and Suprema of stochastic processes
Huy Tuan Pham, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
"Exploring new scientific avenues in trapped-ion quantum processors"
Or Katz, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Duke University,
Tuesday, November 29th, 2022
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Zoom Lunchtime Learning Sessions

2:30pm – 3:30pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 310
The restricted projection to planes in R^3
Shengwen Gan, Department of Mathematics, MIT,
3:30pm – 4:30pm
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Biology Informal Seminar | Judith Su - Tuesday, November 29, 2022 - 3:30 pm

Chen 100
3:30pm – 4:30pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 310
Lorentz gases on quasicrystals
Agniezka Zelerowicz, Department of Mathematics, UC Riverside,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Quantum technologies for trapped molecular ions
Stefan Willitsch, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Basel,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Thermally-Driven Chemistry of Planetary Ice Analogs
Patrick Tribbett, Graduate Student, Department Astronomy & Planetary Science, Northern Arizona University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter Lecture Hall
Reference Dependence and Goal Motivation: Evidence From Online Chess
Jeff Zeidel, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
Wednesday, November 30th, 2022
10:00am – 4:00pm
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JPL Research Poster Conference

JPL
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Dynamics of the Knaster continuum homeomorphism group
Sumun Iyer, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Faculty Pedagogy Journal Club

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Fall Faculty Meeting

Athenaeum
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Deciphering Accretion in Cataclysmic Variables
Paula Szkody, Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Washington,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Impacts of global change on the cycling and bioaccumulation of anthropogenic pollutants
Elsie Suderland, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Physical design meets convex optimization: Hidden structure in Maxwell's equations
Owen Miller, Assistant Professor, Applied Physics, Yale University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

Linde Hall 310
Random surface, planar lattice model, and conformal field theory
Xin Sun, Department of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special CCE Seminar

Gates Annex B122
Photonic 3D assembly of micro- and nano-scale colloidal building blocks
Euan McLeod, Associate Professor, Wyant College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona,