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Friday, May 13th, 2022
10:00am 11:00am
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CTLO Director Candidate Presentation

Fostering a reflective mindset
Michele DiPietro, PhD, Executive Director, Faculty Development and Recognition, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Kennesaw State University,
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBD
Luca Iliesiu, Stanford University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Elucidating Metalloenzyme Mechanisms Through Protein-Based Models.
Hannah S. Shafaat, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University,
12:15pm 1:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Encoded Silicon Qubits: A High-Performance & Scalable Platform for Quantum Computing
Matthew Borselli, Manager, Device Technologies Department, HRL Laboratories, LLC,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Do current pollution monitoring networks give a false sense of security? First results from the world's largest dense sensor network
Matthew S. Johnson, Professor, American atmospheric chemistry scientist, Chemistry, University of Copenhagen,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Beyond Simulations
Paul Duffell, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Purdue University,
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3:00pm 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

A nonlinear spectrum on closed manifolds
Christos Mantoulidis, Department of Mathematics, Rice University,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Mechanical Approach to Active Matter: Reverse Osmotic Effect and Motility-Induced Phase Separation
Hyeongjoo Row, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering, Caltech,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Progressive, Extrapolative Machine Learning for Turbulence Modeling

Xiang Yang, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, Pennsylvania State University,
8:00pm 10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Online Event
Neutron Stars: Where Extreme Gravity Meets Extreme Matter
Katerina Chatziioannou, Professor, Department of Theoretical Astrophysics, Caltech,
Saturday, May 14th, 2022
Sunday, May 15th, 2022
Monday, May 16th, 2022
9:00am 10:00am
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Special Biology Seminar

"Bacterial Signaling within Biofilms and Beyond"
Shanice Webster, Postdoctoral Fellow, Biology, Duke University,
10:00am 11:00am
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Online Event
Unravelling binary and multiple star formation
Rajika Lakmali Kuruwit, University of Copenhagen,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar

Resnick Sustainability Institute Research Seminar
2:00pm 3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Rheological Characterization of Polymer Additives for Mist Control and Drag Reduction
Red Lhota, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Perverse mod p sheaves on the affine Grassmannian
Robert Cass, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Insertion of Olefins into Nickel Alkyls: Mechanistic Studies and Catalysis for the Synthesis of Functionalized Polyolefins
Shouyan Xiong, Graduate Student (Agapie Research Group), Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Ravinder Dahiya

Online and In-Person Event
High-Performance Printed Electronics for Robots and Interactive Systems
Professor Ravinder Dahiya, FIEEE, FRSE, Professor of Electronics and Nanoengineering and EPSRC Research Fellow, Electronics and Nanoengineering, James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, UK,
Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
10:00am 11:00am
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CTLO Director Candidate Presentation

Revising Our Teaching: Three Questions to Guide the Next Course
Joseph Lampert, PhD, Interim Director, Center for Teaching & Learning, University of Chicago,
10:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Creating ARCHER: A 3D Hopping Robot with Flywheels for Attitude Control
Eric Ambrose, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Caltech,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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12:00pm 1:00pm
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Machine Learning and Scientific Computing Series

Online Event
Adversarial Machine Learning and Instrumental Variables for Flexible Causal Modeling
Vasilis Syrgkanis, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research, New England,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Two Analogues of the Euclidean Spherical Maximal Function on Heisenberg Groups
Rajula Srivastava, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Tackling the electronic structure problem on near-term quantum devices: algorithmic improvements and error mitigation techniques
Mario Motta, research staff scientist, IBM,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Order and disorder in multiscale substitution tilings
Yotam Smilansky, Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Molecular design blueprints: materials and catalysts from new simulation and machine learning tools
Heather J Kulik, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Benjamin Idini, Graduate Student, Planetary Science, California Instittue of Technology,
Yayaati Chachan, Graduate Student, Planetary Science, California Instittue of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Bureaucratic Quality and Electoral Accountability
Tara Slough, Assistant Professor of Political Science, New York University,
Wednesday, May 18th, 2022
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Strong ergodicity phenomena for Bernoulli shifts of bounded algebraic dimension
Aristotelis Panagiotopoulos, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Biocatalysis and complex molecule synthesis
Alison Narayan, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Optimization of Distribution Power Networks: From Single-Phase to Multi-Phase
Fengyu Zhou, Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Online Event
Event Horizon Telescope Imaging of Sagittarius A*
Geoff Bower, Research Astronomer, ASIAA,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Acceleration of tropical cyclone development by cloud-radiative feedbacks
Allison Wing, Florida State University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Online Event
Recursive Differencing for Estimating Semiparametric Models
Roger Klein, Professor of Economics, Rutgers University,
Chan Shen, Associate Professor, Penn State,
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4:00pm 5:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering

Dr. Paula T. Hammond, Institute Professor and Department Head, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,