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Friday, January 26th, 2018
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Higgs branches and chiral algebras of 4d N=2 theories -- a progress report
Leonardo Rastelli, SUNY Stony Brook,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Bulk Entanglement Gravity
Sean Carroll, Research Professor of Physics, Caltech,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
6D SCFTs and Group Theory
Tom Rudelius, Institute for Advanced Study,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
Merging black holes in non-spherical nuclear star clusters
Cristobal Petrovich, Postdoctoral Fellow and Gruber Foundation Fellow, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA),
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Toward harnessing the full potential of urban winds: a case study of Hess Tower
Daniel Araya, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Hilbert Structure on the universal Teichmuller space and its Weil-Petersson curvature operator
Zeno Huang, Department of Mathematics, CUNY CSI,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

TBA
Semyon Dyatlov, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Coupling Innovations in Thin-Film and Catalytic Materials to Designs for Stable Photoelectrochemical Cells
Kimberly M. Papadantonakis, Scientific Research Manager, Chemistry, Caltech,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

TBA
Alexey Miroshnikov, Mathematics Department, UCLA,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
When Galaxies Collide: Snapshots of the Universe's Largest Battles
Anne Medling, Hubble Postdoctoral Scholar in Astronomy, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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German Film: Fitzcarraldo

Baxter Lecture Hall
Movie screening for German 130a & 132a // In German with English subtitles
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Caltech Chamber Music Ensembles

Dabney Hall, Lounge
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Saturday, January 27th, 2018
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Outdoor Track & Field) Intrasquad/Alumni Meet vs. Caltech

4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Life: Challenges of Life

Beckman Auditorium
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5:00pm – 8:00pm
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(Men's Basketball) Chapman vs. Caltech

7:00pm – 10:00pm
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(Women's Basketball) Chapman vs. Caltech

8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Caltech Chamber Music Ensembles

Dabney Hall, Lounge
  • Public Event
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Jim Malcolm

Beckman Institute Auditorium
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Sunday, January 28th, 2018
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Caltech Chamber Music Ensembles

Dabney Hall, Lounge
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Monday, January 29th, 2018
12:10pm – 12:50pm
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Chair Yoga

Annenberg 107
3:00pm – 6:30pm
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Demonstration of the VR work of Nonny de la Peña

Sherman Fairchild Library 326 (Interactive Computer Classroom)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
K3 categories, cubic 4-folds, and the Beauville-Voisin conjecture
Junliang Shen, Departement Mathematik, ETH Zurich,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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BELS

Kerckhoff 119
"A Tale of Two Codes: Directed Evolution of the Genetic Code for Unnatural Amino Acid Incorporation"
Andrew Ellington, Professor, Molecular Biosciences, Applied Research, University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Pluto's Bright Heart as a Clue to Ocean Worlds in the Kuiper Belt
Bonnie Buratti, Senior Research Scientist, Principal Scientist and Supervisor: Comets, Asteroids and Satellites Group, Division of Earth and Space Sciences, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Lepton Universality Violation in B-Meson Decays and Inclusive vs Exclusive |Vcb|
Ben Grinstein, UC San Diego,
7:00pm – 8:30pm
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Art + Tech Panel: Games and Art

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Nonny de la Peña, Founder & CEO, Emblematic ,
Johnnemann Nordhagen, Founder of Dim Bulb Games; Co-founder of Fullbright ,
Brian Schrank, Professor of Game Development, Theory and Design, Depaul University ,
Tuesday, January 30th, 2018
8:30am – 6:30pm
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Virtual and Augmented Reality for Space Science and Exploration

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
9:30am – 10:30am
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Fire Extinguisher Training

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH

Annenberg 105
The Growing Role for Artificial intelligence for Space Exploration and the Search for Life Beyond Earth
Steve Chien, Artificial Intelligence Group, JPL/Caltech , JPL,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CANCELLED | William Bennet Munro History Seminar Series

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
This talk has been cancelled.
Wim Decock, Research Professor of Legal History, Universities of Leuven and Liège; Associate Researcher, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History; Visiting Professor, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
TBD
Samuel Howell, Postdoctoral Scholar, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Listening to binary stars through cosmic history: astrophysics with GW
Astrid Lamberts, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Stability in the homology of Torelli groups
Jennifer Wilson, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
Wednesday, January 31st, 2018
10:00am – 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Annenberg 205
Optimization, Complexity and Math (through the lens of one problem and one algorithm)
Avi Wigderson, Princeton University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Emotional Well-Being Workshop for Students: Coping with Grief and Loss

Avery Library
12:00pm – 2:00pm
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Research Software Best Practices and Citation Workshop

Caltech Hall 9th Floor
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Building 15, Room 105
Measure reducibility of countable Borel equivalence relations (after Conley and Miller)
Forte Shinko, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
2:30pm – 3:30pm
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Analysis Seminar

Building 15, Room 131
Oscillation of Holder continuous functions
Artur Nicolau, Departament de Matemàtiques, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Quantifying virtual properties of 3-manifold groups
Michelle Chu, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Forging binary black holes in dense star clusters
Carl Rodriguez, MIT,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar

Moore B280
Some Applications of Extreme Value Theory in Signal Processing and Data Analysis
Vahid Tarokh, Moore Distinguished Scholar, Electrical Engineering, CALTECH,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
The atmospheric life cycle of pollen
Allison Steiner, Associate Professor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Topological Heterostructures by Molecular Beam Epitaxy
Susanne Stemmer, Professor, Materials Department, UC Santa Barbara,
7:00pm – 10:00pm
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(Men's Basketball) Caltech at Pomona-Pitzer

7:00pm – 10:00pm
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(Women's Basketball) Pomona-Pitzer vs. Caltech

7:00pm – 7:45pm
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CS9: Intro to CS Research and Industry

Annenberg 105
ObEN -- AI & Blockchain: Where Futures Meet -- Speaker: Mark Harvilla, Chief Engineer
Thursday, February 1st, 2018
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Personalized model of kinematic and dynamic of physical activities"
Ruzena Bajcsy, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Weak subconvexity without a Ramanujan hypothesis
Jesse Thorner, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University ,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
From Moonshine to Black Holes, Number Theory in Physics
Jeffrey Harvey, Professor, Physics Department, Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Predicting and Understanding Initial Play
Drew Fudenberg, Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics, MIT,
6:00pm – 8:45pm
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Caltech Associates Reception and Dinner with Caltech's Tenth Provost

Athenaeum
Friday, February 2nd, 2018
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Indoor Track & Field) Caltech vs. Mountain T?s Invitational

8:00am – 2/8 5:00pm
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Midterm Examination Period

10:00am – 2:00pm
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I-Corps Lean Startup Workshop

Avery Library
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Hecke operators for characters of Rational Conformal Field Theory
Jeffrey Harvey, University of Chicago,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Dish & Discuss #9

Avery Dining Hall
What is the Prison Industrial Complex?
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Continuous measurements and quantum trajectories in circuit QED
Arian Jadbabaie, Graduate Student, Hutzler Group,
1:00pm – 4:00pm
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Caltech Science Museum's Beckman Room Open for Walk-Ins

Beckman Institute 131
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Exact Bulk Operators and the Fate of Locality
Jared Kaplan, Johns Hopkins University,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Building Coordinator & Floor Warden Training

Keith Spalding B117
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
From Cosmic Dust to Planetesimals: Models vs. Observations
Paola Pinilla, NASA Hubble Fellow, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tricks used for Aerodynamic Experiments
Markus Raffel, Leibniz University ,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Existence of closed geodesics through a regular point on translation surfaces
Weixu Su, School of Mathematical Science, Fudan University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Building 15, Room 131
Constancy of generalized Hodge-Tate weights of a p-adic local system
Koji Shimizu, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Emotional Intelligence Toolkit: Workshop on Open-Mindedness

Sherman Fairchild Library 326 (Interactive Computer Classroom)
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Caltech Chamber Music Ensembles

Dabney Hall, Lounge
  • Public Event