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Friday, May 26th, 2023
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Stochastic Bergman geometry
Gunhee Cho, Department of Mathematics, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
General Copper-Catalyzed C–N Coupling to Access N–Tertiary Alkyl Amines: Synthesis and Mechanism.
Hyungdo Cho, Graduate Student (Fu Research Group), Chemistry, Caltech,
4:30pm – 9:00pm
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Bring your Pet Social Event

  • Internal Event
8:00pm – 9:00pm
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Chamber Music Concerts

Hameetman Center 206 - Frautschi Rehearsal Hall
  • Public Event
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
Seeing the Invisible: Astronomical Radio Waves
Nitika Yadlapalli, PhD Candidate, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
  • Public Event
Saturday, May 27th, 2023
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Caltech Dance Show

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Sunday, May 28th, 2023
2:00pm – 4:00pm
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Caltech Dance Show

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Monday, May 29th, 2023
All Day
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Memorial Day (Institute Holiday)

Off Campus
9:00am – 4:00pm
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
Tuesday, May 30th, 2023
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar

Reversal in the Stationary Prandtl Equations
Sameer Iyer, Department of Mathematics, UC Davis,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar

The Stochastic Heat Equation with multiplicative Lévy noise
Quentin Berger, Laboratoire de Probabilites Statistique et Modelisation, Sorbonne Universite,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Jahan Dawlaty, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
Characterizing Hot, Rocky Exoplanets in the Era of JWST/TOI-1259 A b: A Gas Giant's Origin Story Revealed in Metastable Helium
Kim Paragas, Graduate Student, Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology,
Morgan Saidel, Graduate Student, Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter Lecture Hall
Labor Union and Social Insurance
Hanming Fang, Joseph M. Cohen Term Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
A24's Academic Style; or, Coming of Age in an Era of Student Debt
Jordan Brower, Assistant Professor of English, University of Kentucky,
Wednesday, May 31st, 2023
10:00am – 11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense, Harrison Parker

South Mudd 365
Harrison Parker, Graduate Student Environmental Science & Engineering, Caltech,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Consciousness & Reality Colloquium: There Is A World Out There, But It Is Mental

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

Online Event
Active volume: An architecture for efficient fault-tolerant quantum computers with limited non-local connections
Daniel Litinski, PsiQuantum,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213
Decoding spatial stochastic RNA dynamics from imaging data with point process inference
Christopher Miles, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics Center for Complex Biological Systems NSF-Simons Center for Multiscale Cell Fate, University of California Irvine,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Delicious Lunch Social Hour with APACT

1:00pm – 2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Advancements in Hemodynamic Measurement: Arterial Resonance, Ultrasound, and Machine Learning
Dominic Yurk, Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar

Linde Hall 310
Proper time from correlators in QFT and holography
Allic Sivaramakrishnan, Particle Theory Group, Caltech,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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BMS Lectures in Organic Synthesis

Gates Annex B122
Nicholas Wurtz, Associate Director, Bristol-Myers Squibb,
Erick Carreira, Professor, Organic Chemistry, ETH Zurich,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Early Phases of Galaxy/Supermassive Black Hole Formation and Cosmic Reionization
Masami Ouchi, Professor, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, NAOJ / University of Tokyo,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Microbes in Porous Media: From Bioaggregation to Fungi-enhanced Oil Removal
Peter Kang, Univeristy of Minnesota,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Quantum Sensing of Quantum Materials
Chunhui Du, Assistant Professor, Physics, UC San Diego,
5:00pm – 6:15pm
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Behind the Book: Caltech Magazine Edition Presents "From Scientist to CEO"

  • Public Event
5:00pm – 6:30pm
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Clay Play! Art Night

Thursday, June 1st, 2023
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Predicting Transport, Mixing, and Reaction in Fractured Porous Media Across Scales
Peter Kang, McKnight Land-Grant Assistant Professor and Gibson Chair of Hydrogeology, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

Crellin 151
"Electron Flow in the Biofilm Matrix: Impact of the Chemical Microenvironment"
Jinyang Li, Newman Group,
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Faculty Learning Communities - Hosted by the CTLO

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Sun Potentials: Creative Research with Solar Power
Alex Nathanson, Founder of Solar Power for Artists/ RPI & NYU,
Huntrezz Janos, Artist (LA),
  • Public Event
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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CPA Writing Group Sessions-June

Caltech Hall 9th Floor
  • Public Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Locomotion of flagellated bacteria: From the swimming of single bacteria to the collective motion of bacterial swarm"
Prof. Xiang Cheng, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CPA Diversity Committee meeting

  • Public Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar Series

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Osmotrophy and the Bacterial Underpinnings of Stimulated Ureolytic Soil Biocementation for Geotechnical Ground Improvement
Charlie Graddy, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Microbiology and Microbial Genetics, University of California, Davis,
  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Relative Trace Formula and the Burgess Bound for Twisted $L$-functions
Liyang Yang, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Energetic Constraints on Biological Assembly and Motion
Michael Murrell, Yale University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
The Deformation: Intentional Incomprehensibility in Seventeenth-Century Minim and Jesuit Visual Culture
Susanna Berger, Associate Professor of Art History and Philosophy, Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, USC,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar

Baxter B125
Ethnic churches delayed immigrant assimilation in the historical United States
Leah Platt Boustan, Professor of Economics, Princeton University,
Friday, June 2nd, 2023
All Day
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Last Day of Classes for Seniors and Graduate Students

8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Presenting Theses for the Degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Engineer

10:00am – 11:00am
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Cool Beans Coffee for Postdocs-BBE

  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CPA Postdoc L(a)unch- June 2

Caltech Hall 9th Floor
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Exploring Quantum Networking Nodes for Neutral Atom Tweezer Arrays
Elmer Guardado-Sanchez, Harvard University,
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Student-led Lunar Transportation Live Demonstration and Poster Session

Beckman Mall
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Toward real-time simulation of cardiorespiratory flows
Mahdi Esmaily Moghadam, Assistant Professor, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Banks-McKelvey Memorial Lecture in Political Economy

Baxter Lecture Hall
Algorithms, Incentives, and Democracy
Elizabeth Maggie Penn, Professor of Political Science and Quantitative Theory & Methods, Emory University,
  • Public Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
2-torsions in singular instanton homology
Fan Ye, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Reductive Proton-coupled Electron Transfer in the Main Group
Enric H. Adillon, Graduate Student (Peters Research Group), Chemistry, Caltech,
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Chamber Music Concert

Dabney Hall, Lounge
  • Public Event
Saturday, June 3rd, 2023
8:00am – 6/6 11:59pm
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Study Period for Seniors and Graduate Students

8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Chamber Music Concert

Dabney Hall, Lounge
  • Public Event
Monday, June 5th, 2023
10:00am – 11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense

Gates Annex B122
Application of Dewar Heterocycles and Vinyl Carbocations in Organic Synthesis
Sepand Nistanaki, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
12:00pm – 12:45pm
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Community Read: A Conversation with Professor Danielle Allen about Our Declaration

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

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
"Asymmetric pericyclic transformations from reactive palladium intermediates"
Alexander Cusumano, Graduate Student, Chemistry, California Institute of Technology,
3:45pm – 4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Finding New Electronic and Magnetic Materials from a Chemical Perspective."
Robert J. Cava, Russell Wellman Moore Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Some cases of the Zilber-Pink conjecture for curves in $\mathcal{A}_g$
Georgios Papas, Einstein Institute of Mathematics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Topological mini-bands and electron-phonon interaction in Moiré materials
Chao-Xing Liu, Professor, Penn State University,
Tuesday, June 6th, 2023
8:00am – 12:00pm
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First Aid / AED / CPR Training (Day 1 of 2)

12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Transforming Your Research Into Teaching

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
  • Internal Event
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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BMB Spring Rotation Seminar

Crellin 151
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
A Blue Rock with a Golden Tail
Quicheng Zhang, Graduate Student, Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Harden M. McConnell Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Scaling Down the Laws of Thermodynamics
Christopher Jarzynski, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Department of Physics, University of Maryland,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Informal Seminar - Baljit S. Khakh | Tuesday, June 6th -4 pm

Chen 100
Cells That Tile Your Brain: Unmasking Astrocyte Biology in Neural Circuits
Baljit S. Khakh, Professor, Physiology and Neurobiology, UCLA,