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Winter 2019-2020

Friday, January 31st, 2020

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Chaos in the butterfly cone

Gábor Sárosi, CERN,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Quantum metrology with strongly interacting spin systems

Joonhee Choi, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Endres Group,

12:00pm – 1:30pm

Maximizing your Leadership

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area

1:00pm – 2:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Geometric Extremization for AdS/CFT and Black Hole Entropy

Jerome Gauntlett, Imperial College, London,

1:00pm – 2:00pm

SURF Proposal Info Session

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)

1:30pm – 5:30pm

Caltech + Finance Symposium 2020

Dabney Hall, Lounge

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

The fate of the interstellar medium in early-type galaxies

Michał Michałowski, Researcher, Astronomical Observatory Institute, Adam Mickiewicz University,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 255

Conformal field theory for multiple SLEs

Nam-Gyu Kang, School of Mathematics, KIAS,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Analysis of meteoroid ablation, from ground simulation to observation

Thierry Magin, Associate Professor, Aeronautics & Aerospace, von Karman Institute,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187

Stable commutator length in groups acting on trees

Lvzhou Chen, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

▶︎ CANCELED: Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

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4:00pm – 5:00pm

W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

TBA

Juan J. de Pablo, Vice President for National Laboratories, University of Chicago,

6:00pm – 8:00pm

Small-group Discussion: "What brings the deepest satisfaction?"

Caltech Y

Public Event

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Stargazing Lecture

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Galaxies are Cosmic Magnets

Gina Panopoulou, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,

Public Event

7:30pm – 9:00pm

German Film Screening: Gundermann

Baxter Lecture Hall

Film screening for German 130b & 132b (in German with English subtitles)

Saturday, February 1st, 2020

1:30pm – 5:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Boiadjian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Caltech Jazz Band

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Monday, February 3rd, 2020

12:00pm – 1:00pm

CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk

Annenberg 105

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Summer Options for Pre-Meds

Center for Student Services 310 (Career Achievement, Leadership, and Exploration)

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 387

Derived traces for Soergel categories

Eugene Gorsky, Department of Mathematics, UC Davis,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

A Pan-STARRS and TESS Search for Distant Planets

Matthew Holman, Lecturer / SAO Astrophysicist, Department of Astronomy, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105

Algorithms for Eliciting Machine Learning Metrics

Sanmi Koyejo, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

SUSY Rilles: A Speculation on Superstring Signatures in the Cosmic Microwave Background

S. James Gates, Jr., Brown University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Colloidal Electronics

Albert Tianxiang Liu, PhD Candidate, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

7:00pm – 8:30pm

Cystic Fibrosis Talk by Diane Shader Smith

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Tuesday, February 4th, 2020

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105

Online Optimization with Preference Feedback, Structured Decision Spaces, and Safety Constraints

Yanan Sui, Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Off-Campus SURF Info Session

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Post-Career Fair Job/Internship Search Strategies

Center for Student Services 310 (Career Achievement, Leadership, and Exploration)

1:00pm – 2:00pm

LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)

Cosmography and Black Hole Spectroscopy with Gravitational Waves

Will Farr, Professor, Stoneybrook,

3:00pm – 4:30pm

Presentation Skills Workshop

Moore B270

Winning at Conferences

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Dix Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

Direct Characterization of Exoplanets with Long-Baseline Optical Interferometry

Jason Wang & Max Millar-Blachaer, Post Doc, Astronomy, Caltech (Astronomy),

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 125

"Neural Adaptations and Behavioral Strategies for Aerial Interception of Targets in Visually Guided Predatory Insects"

Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido, Assistant Professor, Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Time Management Workshop for Postdocs

Crellin 151

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Art Gallery Opening Night Gala

Lee F. Browne Dining Hall (formerly the Harry Chandler Dining Hall)

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Arts Gala

Lee F. Browne Dining Hall (formerly the Harry Chandler Dining Hall)

7:00pm – 8:00pm

Jim Gates: "From SyFy & Marvel to Superstring Theory, Evolution, & the CMB"

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Public Event

Wednesday, February 5th, 2020

8:00am – 2/11 5:00pm

Midterm Examination Period

Academic

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Math Graduate Student Seminar

Linde Hall 187

Central limit theorem on conjugacy class measure of the symmetric group

Yuhui Jin, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

1:00pm – 5:00pm

Biosafety - Comprehensive Training

Keith Spalding B117

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Logic Seminar

Linde Hall 387

Weak containment of subgroups

Forte Shinko, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 314

Fault-tolerant quantum error correction in bosonic systems

Kyungjoo Noh, Graduate Student, Yale University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Detecting the Shadow of the Black Hole in M87

Feryal Ozel, Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

The Radiative Drivers of Climate Change: Known Knowns and Known Unknowns

William Collins, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Frontiers in Chemical Biology Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Engineered Protein Switches for Studying Dynamic Cellular Processes

Dustin Maly, Professor and Raymon E. and Rosellen M. Lawton Distinguished Scholar in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Washington,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Social Science Job Candidate

Baxter B125

Those Who Stayed: Selection and Cultural Change during the Age of Mass Migration

Anne Sophie Beck Knudsen, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Economics, Harvard University,

7:00pm – 8:00pm

Alpine Club Talk

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Moab Adventures

Eowyn Lucas, Alumna, Caltech,

Public Event

7:30pm – 10:30pm

West Coast Swing Dance Class

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room

Thursday, February 6th, 2020

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

Snapping and Dancing Soft Structures

Francesco Dal Corso, Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, Italy,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

Crellin 151

"Single cell spatial genomics with seqFISH+"

Chee Huat (Linus) Eng, Cai Group, CCE,

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