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Monday, March 29th, 2021
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Fraïssé classes with simply characterized big Ramsey degrees
Natasha Dobrinen, Department of Mathematics, University of Denver,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Online Event
The Impact of Privacy Measures on Online Advertising Markets
Shunto Kobayashi, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online Event
Phenomenology of Magnetic Black Holes
Nicholas Orlofsky, Carleton University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Online Event
Enhancing the Ethylene Selectivity of CO2 Electrochemical Reduction by a Molecular Copolymer Membrane on Copper Surface
Jianchun Wang, Postdoctoral Scholar (Grubbs Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,
7:30pm 9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap (Mandarin)

Online Event
"Killer Asteroids" and "Echoes of the Big Bang"
Quanzhi Ye, Research Scientist, Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland,
Cheng Zhang, PhD Candidate, Department of Physics, Caltech,
  • Public Event
Tuesday, March 30th, 2021
11:00am 12:15pm
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Cancelled Chemical Physics Seminar

Online Event
Ralph Jimenez, Adjoint Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, JILA, University of Colorado Boulder,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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AAPI "Talk Space"

Online Event
  • Internal Event
4:00pm 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Online Event
Chemistry in embedded disks: setting the stage for planet formation
Merel van't Hoff, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan,
Wednesday, March 31st, 2021
10:00am 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Online Event
Optimal Sub-Gaussian Mean Estimation in R
Jasper Lee, Grad Student, Brown University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Online Event
Multiple Stellar Populations in Star Clusters
Anna Fabiola Marino, University of Padova,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Online Event
Optimal Auctions: Non-Expected Utility and Constant Risk Aversion
Benny Moldovanu, Professor, Department of Economics, Universität Bonn,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online Event
Go Big, Go Left: Pushing the Limits of Liquid Xenon Detectors for Dark Matter Detection
Alden Fan, KIPAC/Stanford University/SLAC,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Online Event
WE-CAN Know More about Smoke: An Overview of the Summer 2018 Western Wildfire Experiment for Cloud Chemistry, Aerosol Absorption and Nitrogen (WE-CAN)
Emily Fischer, Colorado State University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Online Event
Conformational Dynamics in Supramolecular Nanostructures and Applications to Water Purification
Julia Ortony, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Thursday, April 1st, 2021
10:00am 11:00am
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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar

Online Event
Peril, Prudence and Planning as Risk, Avoidance and Worry
Peter Dayan, Professor of Informatics, University of Tübingen; Director of the Department of Computational Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, University of Tübingen,
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Online Event
Phase-field modeling and simulation in biomechanics: cell migration and other applications
Dr. Adrian Moure, Postdoctoral Scholar, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Caltech,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

Online Event
Quality Control During 40S Ribosome Assembly
Katrin Karbstein, Associate Professor of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Scripps Research,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

Online Event
A surprising role for microbial "antibiotics" in the promotion of phosphorous bioavailability
Dr. Darcy McRose (Newman Group), Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Online Event
Maass forms and the mock theta function f(q)
Alexander Dunn, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online Event
AI for physics & physics for AI
Max Tegmark, MIT,
Friday, April 2nd, 2021
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar - CANCELLED

Online Event
TBD
Geoff Penington, UC Berkeley,
11:00am 12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Online Event
Verifying quantum computations using interactive proofs
Urmila Mahadev, Assistant Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Online Event
Catalyst-Controlled Selectivity in Iridium-Catalyzed Alkyl Ester Cleavage
Nathan D. Schley, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry, Vanderbilt University,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online Event
Halo's Magnetic field as Evident from stRiated Interstellar Clouds (HOMERIC)
Aris Tritsis, Postdoctoral Fellow, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Mount Stromlo Observatory, ANU,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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An Overview of Deep Space Navigation

Online Event
Shyam Bhaskaran
Shyam Bhaskaran, Supervisor, Outer Planet Navigation Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Online Event
Skein lasagna modules of 2-handlebodies
Ikshu Neithalath, Mathematics Department, UCLA,
Saturday, April 3rd, 2021
10:00am 3:00pm
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Caltech Shines

Online Event
  • Internal Event
10:00am 3:00pm
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Monday, April 5th, 2021
11:00am 12:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture

Online Event
A Networked Systems Approach to Engineering Synthetic Biological Patterning in Theory and Practice
Melinda Perkins, Postdoctoral Fellow, European Molecular Biology Laboratory,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Subgroups of PLo(I)PLo^fo(I) which do not embed into Thompson's group FF
Justin Moore, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar

Online Event
Resnick Sustainability Institute Research Seminar
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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You Can Lead a Horse to Water: Spatial Learning and Path Dependence in Consumer Search
Charles Hodgson, Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Yale University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

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Cosmology and Unification
Raman Sundrum, University of Maryland,
Tuesday, April 6th, 2021
12:00pm 1:00pm
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3:00pm 3:50pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Online Event
The extremals of the Alexandrov-Fenchel inequality
Ramon van Handel, Operations Research & Financial Engineering, Princeton University,
4:00pm 4:50pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Online Event
Explicit and nonlinear variants of Bourgain's projection theorem
Pablo Shmerkin, Mathematics Department, University of British Columbia,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Online Event
Revealing the Bulk Compositions of Small Planets
Michael Greklek-McKeon, Graduate Student, Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, April 7th, 2021
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Online Event
A Network Solution to Robust Implementation: the case of Identical but Unknown Distributions
Antonio Penta, ICREA Research Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Affiliated Professor, Barcelona GSE,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Online Event
Revealing Massive Star Mass Loss Through Supernovae
Takashi Moriya, Assistant Professor, NOA Japan,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Online Event
Lacustrine records of Cenozoic and Plio-Pleistocene hydroclimate change in western North America
Daniel Ibarra, University of California Berkeley,
Thursday, April 8th, 2021