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Wednesday, April 16th, 2025
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Optimal In-Kind Redistribution
Zi Yang Kang, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Toronto,
Thursday, April 17th, 2025
9:00am – 10:00am
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Election Science Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project

Online Event
Unpacking the Implications of President Trump's Election Executive Orders
Justin Levitt, Professor of Law and Gerald T. McLaughlin Fellow, Loyola Law School, Loyola Marymount University,
11:00am – 1:00pm
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Caltech Employees: Therapy Pets Hang

San Pasqual Walk
  • Internal Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Smart Geomechanics
Ioannis Stefanou, Professor of Mechanics, UME, ENSTA, IP Paris,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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APACT Professional Development Workshop | LinkedIn Lab with James Berk

  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Grading Best Practices - Practical Advice for Consistent, Constructive Grading

Online Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Inclusive Leadership 201

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Understanding Your Loan and Withdrawal Options in Regards to Federally Declared Disasters

Online and In-Person Event
2:45pm – 3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Moduli spaces of curves with polynomial point count
Hannah Larson, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
3:00pm – 7:00pm
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KISS Showcase and Caltech/JPL Networking Mixer

Chen 100
  • Public Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Gram Matrices for Isotropic Vectors
Bernd Sturmfels, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Messinian flash floods & Mediterranean Gateway changes detected by plant biomarkers along the S Iberian Margin
Sarah Feakins, Professor of Earth Science, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California,
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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History Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism
Keidrick Roy, Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar, Samuel Achilefu

Annenberg 105
Convergence of multi-spectral radiation for cancer detection and therapy
Samuel Achilefu, Ph.D., Professor & Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
On p-adic L-functions for GL(N)
Mladen Dimitrov, Department of Mathematics, Université de Lille,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Feedback control of open quantum systems: Looking back, looking forward
Hideo Mabuchi, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar

Baxter B125
Medieval Markets and Migration: Paris c. 1300
Nathan Sussman, Full Professor, International Economics & Pictet Chair in Finance and Development, Geneva Graduate Institute,
Friday, April 18th, 2025
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Adding Courses and Removing Conditions and Incompletes

10:00am – 11:15am
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Science Journey - Nature's Tango: How Insects Dance for Survival

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Exploring CFT Moments
David Poland, Yale University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Baxter 127
Structural Rationality, Strategic Reasoning, and Equilibrium
Marciano Siniscalchi, Professor of Economics, Northwestern University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Graduate Student Affinity Space

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Jordan-Wigner transformations on the torus
Frank Verstraete, University of Ghent, University of Cambridge,
1:45pm – 5:00pm
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The Second Annual Bill Gross Business Plan Competition

Chen 100
  • Internal Event
2:15pm – 3:15pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Performance-Portable Numerical Relativity with AthenaK and Applications
Hengrui Zhu, Graduate Student, Department of Physics, Princeton University,
2:30pm – 3:30pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Illuminating Molecular Spin Relaxation Mechanisms through Ligand Field Theory and Physical Inorganic Spectroscopy
Nathanael Kazmierczak, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Collision of two plates in a gas
Hans Hornung, C. L. "Kelly" Johnson Professor of Aeronautics, Emeritus, GALCIT, California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Tight contact structures on Seifert fibrations
Hyunki Min, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CGSC Industry Seminar

Gates Annex B122
Why So Many Ways to Die?
Dr. Vishva Dixit, Vice President, Physiological Chemistry, Genentech,
6:00pm – 10:00pm
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CPA Comedy Night

Dabney Hall, Lounge
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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▶︎ Caltech Tai Chi Club - Free Tai Chi Class

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
Saturday, April 19th, 2025
1:00pm – 5:00pm
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The Caltech Jazz Festival

Hameetman Center Patio
  • Public Event
Monday, April 21st, 2025
11:00am – 1:00pm
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Community Garden Composting

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar

Resnick Sustainability Center 120
A Digital Twin of the Electrical Distribution Grid
Yiheng Xie, Graduate Student, Low Group, Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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World Fest

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
1:00pm – 2:30pm
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Transforming Your Research Into Teaching for Postdocs

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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2025 Undergraduate Research Week | Student-Mentor Coffee Hour

Cafe at Broad
  • Public Event
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Math Teaching Seminar

Linde Hall 359
Conversations about Math Teaching: Giving and receiving feedback
Clara Seo, Chemistry Department, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Metasomatic diamond-forming fluids in the lithospheric mantle - sources and ages
Yaakov Weiss, Senior Lecturer Institute of Earth Sciences, The Fredy and Nadine Herrmann, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
Mathematics of magic angles in 2D structures
Maciej Zworski,, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Informal Seminar - Lionel Christiaen

Chen 130
Regulation of deterministic development
Lionel Christiaen, Director and Group Leader, Michael Sars Centre, University of Bergen,
6:00pm – 8:00pm
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Caltech Connect Training for Students (via zoom)

7:00pm – 9:00pm
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▶︎ Caltech Tai Chi Club - Free Tai Chi Class

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program

Dabney Hall, Lounge
Poetry Reading and Discussion
Jenny Factor, Lecturer in Poetry, Caltech,
  • Public Event
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025
All Day
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Caltech Giving Day: A Day to Give Back, Celebrate, and Engage

Online Event
  • Public Event
10:00am – 1:00pm
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Caltech Common Threads Initiative

Hameetman Center 206 - Frautschi Rehearsal Hall
11:00am – 1:00pm
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Earth Day Resource Fair

San Pasqual Walk
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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APACT Par-Tea with Sylvia Lee

Chen 130
  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Jonathan Weissman

Chen 100
Epigenetic engineering as a tool for discovery and therapeutics.
Jonathan Weissman, Professor, Biology, MIT,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213
The Mechanism Behind the Implicit Biases of Large Learning Rates: Edge of Stability, Balancing, and Catapult
Yuqing Wang, Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate, AMS, Johns-Hopkins University,
12:00pm – 2:00pm
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Earth Day

Center for Student Services, Large Tent
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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World Fest

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Exploring New Frontiers in Planetary Science: From Magma Oceans to Liquid-Water Worlds
Renyu Hu, Research Scientist V, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
On Plausible Counterfactual Explanations in XAI
Jiji Zhang, Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
The Declarations of Independents: Open-Ended Survey Responses and the Nature of Non-Identification
Paul Kellstedt, Professor, Department of Political Science, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering

Gates Annex B122
Ionic Compatibilization of Plastics to Reduce Environmental Impacts (general lecture)
Rachel Segalman, Edward Noble Kramer Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, UC Santa Barbara,
5:30pm – 7:00pm
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im cooked, now what? (casual conversation with dinner)

7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Movies That Matter presents "Nuclear Now"

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
10:00am – 11:00am
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Medical Engineering Defense, Anne Kil

Broad 100
Engineering and Computational Tools for Salivary Biomedicine
Anne Kil, Ph.D. Candidate, Pachter Lab, Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
  • Internal Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
A stress tensor for asymptotically flat spacetime
Hare Krishna, University of Texas, Austin,
11:00am – 1:00pm
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Plant-Based Food Sampling

San Pasqual Walk
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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2025 Undergraduate Research Week | What Does Academic Year Research Look Like at Caltech?

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
  • Public Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Graphings of Arithmetical Equivalence Relations
Tyler Arant, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar

South Mudd 254
From Tectonic Stress Field to Surface Deformation: A Global Analysis
Boontigan Kuhasubpasin, Graduate Student, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California Los Angeles,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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World Fest

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
12:45pm – 1:45pm
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Bystander Intervention Training

Chen 100
2:00pm – 4:00pm
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Ignite Your Teaching (AI Edition): Ideas and Practices You Can Use

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Anaerobic Heteroatom Transfer Reactions Promoted by Photoexcited 1,3-Dipoles
Marvin Parasram, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, New York University,
  • Internal Event
3:00pm – 4:15pm
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Lab Safety Orientation Training

Online Event