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Thursday, November 16th, 2023
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Center for Science, Society, and Public Policy (CSSPP) Panel Event

Dabney Hall, Lounge
Publishing Your Science: A Roundtable Conversation
12:00pm – 2:00pm
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Drop-in Info Session and Lunch: the Bill Gross Prize for Entrepreneurship

Building 15, Room 122
  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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International Education Week: Reef Restoration and Citizen Science in French Polynesia

2:30pm – 3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Mirror Symmetry for Nonabelian LG models
Nathan Priddis, College of Physical & Mathematical Sciences, Brigham Young University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Gates Annex B122
Towards solution of the many-electron problem for transition states and transition metal containing systems
Sandeep Sharma, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado Boulder,
3:45pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Quantum K-invariants of Grassmannian via Quot scheme
Ming Zhang, Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Andrew Buller, Professor, Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Dine and Dialogue: Black Feminist Thought

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Ice sheet and landscape change: Insights from subglacial archives
Allie Balter-Kennedy, Postdoctoral Scholar, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Geometric Eisenstein Series and Torsion Vanishing
Linus Hamann, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Wielding Frequency Dependent Squeezing against Quantum Back-Action in the LIGO Gravitational Wave Observatories
Lee McCuller, Caltech,
4:30pm – 6:00pm
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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series

Jorgensen 109
Patenting your Innovation
Rose Kiser, Assistant Director for Technology Transfer, Office of Technology Transfer and Corporate Partnerships, Caltech,
John Peck, Partner, KPPB law firm,
Friday, November 17th, 2023
10:00am – 11:00am
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Special Seminar with Giuseppe Loianno

Annenberg 104
Re-thinking the Perception-Action Paradigm for Super Autonomous Robots
Giuseppe Loianno, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, New York University,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Chaos in Observable Algebras of Quantum Gravity
Nima Lashkari, Purdue University,
11:45am – 1:15pm
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Caltech Library Workshop – Managing Data with Pandas

Online Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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International Education Week: The Caltech Heritage Project – Institutional + International History Memorialized

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
How simulating balls and springs captures the power of quantum computing
Robin Kothari, Google,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Dwarf Galaxies, Neutron Star Mergers, and Heavy Elements
Anya Nugent,
  • Internal Event
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Binary Interaction and the Explodability of Massive Stars
Rachel Patton, Graduate Student, Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics (CCAPP), Ohio State University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Watson 104
Nonequilibrium spin dynamics in quantum magnets probed by neutrons
Dr. Chengyun Hua, R&D Associate, Materials Science & Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
New Modeling Capability for Hypersonic Flow Physics
Tom Schwartzentruber, Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Online Event
Log-Concavity of the Alexander Polynomial for Special Alternating Links
Elena S. Hafner, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Enantioselective Transition-Metal Catalysis via an Anion-Binding Approach
John Ovian, Postdoctoral Scholar (Peters Research Group), Chemistry, Caltech,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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▶︎ Caltech Tai Chi Club - Free Tai Chi Class

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
Stellar Tantrums and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Yuping Huang, PhD Candidate, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
  • Public Event
Saturday, November 18th, 2023
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Caltech Glee Club and Chamber Singers Concert

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Sunday, November 19th, 2023
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Caltech Glee Club and Chamber Singers Concert

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Monday, November 20th, 2023
9:00am – 4:00pm
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Frontiers in AI in Theoretical Chemistry

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Frontiers in AI in Theoretical Chemistry
Frank Noé, Advancing Physical and Theoretical Chemistry with Deep Learning,
David Limmer, Variational Deep Learning of Transition Path Ensembles In and Out of Equilibrium,
Michele Ceriotti, Machine-learning Representations, Beyond Locality,
Pratyush Tiwary, From Chemical Identity to Boltzmann Ensembles for Proteins, RNA and Crystals with Generative AI and Statistical Mechanics,
Erik Thiede, Inferring the Distribution of Biomolecular Conformations from CryoEM,
Gábor Csányi, The MACE Force Field Architecture,
Grant Rotskoff, Thermodynamically Consistent, Scalable Back-Mapping with Generative Neural Networks,
Cecilia Clementi,
Boris Kozinksy,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk

Annenberg 105
  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 2:00pm
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Transgender Day of Remembrance: Art Activity

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
The Destructive Power of Supershear Ruptures as observed in the devastating, Feb 6th, 2023, Mw 7.8 Kahramanmaras/Pazarcik, Türkiye/Syria Mega-Earthquake
Ares J. Rosakis, Theodore von Karman Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
The Piezoaxionic Effect: dark matter detection and new forces
Amalia Madden, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

Linde Hall 310
Random conformal geometry
Morris Ang, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Solvable models for 2+1D quantum critical points with a non-local area law of entanglement
Thomas Scaffidi, Professor, Department of Physics, UC Irvine,
Tuesday, November 21st, 2023
9:00am – 12:00pm
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Frontiers in AI in Theoretical Chemistry

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Laser Safety Training

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

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
Endurance: The origin of a mission to explore the farside of the Moon
James Keane, Scientist, Small Bodies Group, JPL,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
When the Greeks Ceased to be Greek: John Milton and Early Modern Greece
Tomos Evans, Hellenic Research Fellow at California State University, Sacramento, and an Associate Fellow of the Warburg Institute,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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▶︎ Caltech Tai Chi Club - Free Tai Chi Class

Beckman Institute
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2023
10:00am – 11:00am
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Consciousness & Reality Colloquium: Quantum Cosmology & The Role of Qualia

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

Online Event
Thursday, November 23rd, 2023
8:00am – 11/24 5:00pm
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Thanksgiving (Institute holiday)

9:00am – 11/24 4:00pm
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
Monday, November 27th, 2023
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar

Jorgensen 109
The Summer Workshop on Computer Vision Methods for Ecology (CV4E) Progress Review
Sara Beery, Assistant Professor, MIT CSAIL,
Pietro Perona, Allen E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Unpacking Hate: Disrupting Antisemitism

4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Amino acids on the rocks: novel pathways for the mineral-mediated formation of key components for life
Elle Chimiak, Research Associate, Geological Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
Learning when to Defer in Content Moderation: The Human-Machine Interplay
Thodoris Lykouris, Assistant Professor, Operations Management, MIT Sloan School of Management,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Prospecting for new physics using muons
Jure Zupan, University of Cincinnati,
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Optical control of antiferromagnetic order
Suyang Xu, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvad University,
Tuesday, November 28th, 2023
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Faculty Short Course - Course Design Basics (Assessment)

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Special Seminar with Prof. Tat-Jun Chin

Annenberg 105
Vision-based Spacecraft Pose Estimation
Tat-Jun Chin, SmartSat CRC Professorial Chair, School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, The University of Adelaide,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Unpacking Hate: Disrupting Islamophobia

2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar

East Bridge 114
Searching singularity formation in fluids with deep learning
Ching-Yao Lai, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University,
2:30pm – 3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Conjugacy classes of derangements in finite groups of Lie type
Daniele Garzoni, Department of Mathematics, USC,
3:45pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

TBA
Aravind Asok, Department of Mathematics, USC,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
Unveiling the Early Solar System: Tracing Mixing and Accretion through Carbonaceous Chondrites
Jan Hellmann, Postdoc, Department of Geology, University of Maryland,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

Linde Hall 310
Last Passage Percolation beyond algebraic formulas
Lingfu Zhang, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Men of Color Affinity Space

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Identification and Inference for Pure Random Coefficients Models with Limited Consideration
Francesca Molinari, H. T. Warshow and Robert Irving Warshow Professor of Economics and Professor of Statistics, Cornell University,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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▶︎ Caltech Tai Chi Club - Free Tai Chi Class

Beckman Institute
Wednesday, November 29th, 2023
10:00am – 11:30am
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Transforming Your Research Into Teaching - Fall 2023 (Culminating Presentations)

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
11:00am – 12:00pm
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BBE Special Seminar - Matthew Meselson | Wednesday, November 29th, 2023 at 11 am

Chen 100
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series

East Bridge 114
Quantum Computation with Quantum LDPC Codes in Reconfigurable Atom Arrays
Hengyun (Harry) Zhou, Harvard and QuEra,