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Week of November 16, 2025
Sunday, November 16th, 2025
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Monday, November 17th, 2025
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RSI Research Seminar
Magnetic Refrigerants for Sustainable Cooling
Elena Priesen Reis,
Graduate student, Fultz Lab,
Engineering and Applied Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Rains & Quakes in 3D Massive Stars: First Light of the AREPO-Star Project
Jing-ze Ma,
PhD Student at Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Reconstructing Earth's early subaerial environments via process-informed comparative sedimentology
Mathieu Lapôtre,
Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and, by courtesy, of Geophysics and of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Earth & Planetary Sciences,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The Open Effective Field Theory of Inflation
Santiago Agüí-Salcedo,
University of Chicago,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2025
9:30am
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2025 Perpall SURF Speaking Competition | Semi-Final Round Session A
Perpall SURF Speaking Competition
10:00am
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4:15pm
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11:00am
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Data driven dynamical closure of partial differential equations
Chris Vales,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Department of Mathematics,
Dartmouth College,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Can quantum invariants read the geometry of a knot?
Lara San Martinez Suarez,
PhD Student,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
12:15pm
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2:00pm
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2025 Perpall SURF Speaking Competition | Semi-Final Round Session B
Perpall SURF Speaking Competition
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar
From Optimal Transport to Collective Intelligence: Lifelong and Agentic Reinforcement Learning via Task Embeddings
Eva Liu,
Ph.D. student,
Machine Intelligence and Neural Technologies,
Vanderbilt University,
4:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Yang-Mills, probability, and stochastic PDE
Sky Cao,
NSF postdoctoral fellow and C.L.E. Moore Instructor,
Department of Mathematics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Competing for Attention: Quality Provision in Digital Markets
Odilon Camara,
Associate Professor of Finance and Business Economics, USC Marshall School of Business; Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech,
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2025
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Ensemble Averages of Fuzzballs
Yoav Zigdon,
Tel Aviv University,
12:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
The Radon–Nikodym topography of measure-class-preserving equivalence relations
12:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
A New Global Database of Secular Horizontal GNSS Velocities
Guo Cheng,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
University of Nevada, Reno,
1:30pm
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4:00pm
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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Mini-Symposium
Emerging approaches for studying human cognition in health and disease
2:00pm
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4:30pm
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2025 Perpall SURF Speaking Competition | Semi-Final Round Session C
Perpall SURF Speaking Competition
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
Rotationally symmetric plabic graphs and the Lagrangian Grassmannian
Olha Shevchenko,
PhD Student,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
3:00pm
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4:15pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Techniques Toward the Wafer-Scale Fabrication of Enzyme-based Sensors
Richard Smith,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Richard D. Smith, EE PhD Defense
Techniques Toward the Wafer-Scale Fabrication of Enzyme-based Sensors
Richard D. Smith, EE PhD Candidate,
Axel Scherer Lab,
California Institute of Technology,
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
New Views of Gas, Stellar Feedback, and the Interstellar Medium
Adam Leroy,
Professor,
Department of Astronomy,
Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Eddy Generation Mechanisms in the Surf Zone
Christine Baker,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Failure Modes in Oxide Solid State Electrolytes: Direct Observations of the Stress Accompanying Dendrite Growth
W. Craig Carter,
Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Peter B. Dervan Lecture
I. Adding New Chemistries to the Central Dogma; II. A New Vision for Nonprofit Research
Peter G. Schultz,
CEO and President,
L.S. "Sam" Skaggs Presidential Chair Department of Chemistry,
Scripps Research Institute,
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Experiments on Monotonicity and Complexity
John Rehbeck,
Associate Professor of Economics,
Ohio State University,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Watson Lecture - Thirteen Years in the Dust: How a Robot Showed that Mars Was Once Habitable, with Ashwin Vasavada
Ashwin Vasavada,
project scientist, Mars Science Laboratory, JPL,
- Public Event
Thursday, November 20th, 2025
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Ongoing
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9:30am
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2025 Perpall SURF Speaking Competition | Semi-Final Round Session D
Perpall SURF Speaking Competition
10:00am
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11:00am
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CCE Special BioChemistry/Chemistry Lunch Seminar
Unlocking the Secrets of Breath and Defense: Surfactant Proteins' Role in Lung Health & Fighting Disease
Mona Minkara,
Assistant Professor,Affiliate Faculty,
Dept. of Bioengineering and Dept of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Northeastern University,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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EVOxZankou Seminar
"Hunting for Distant Protein Relatives in the Twilight Zone of Evolution" and "Quantifying Gene Specificity Across Species: An Entropy-Based Tool for Single-Cell RNA-seq Data"
Calvin Rusley,
Graduate Student,
GPS,
Caltech,
Nikhila Swarna,
Graduate Student,
BBE,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Local fault-tolerant error correction with simulated confinement
Ethan Lake,
UC Berkeley,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Quantum Invariants and Fiberedness
Lara San Martin Suarez,
PhD Student,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Special Seminar
Mapping the Diffuse Ultraviolet Universe with NASA's Aspera Mission and Advancing UV Detector Technologies
Aafaque R. Khan,
PhD. Candidate, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar
The homology of the Hilbert scheme of points in affine space
Jaspreet Singh,
PhD Student,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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CCE Special Chemistry Seminar
Design and synthesis of organic electronic materials
Malika Jeffries-EL,
Professor,
Dept. of Chemistry and Division of Materials Science,
Boston University,
4:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Recent Advances in 3D Gas+Dust Dynamics Modeling in Protoplanetary Disks
Hui Li,
Scientist,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Rings of scalar-valued automorphic forms on certain Deligne–Mostow Shimura varieties
Yuxin Lin,
Graduate Student,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Universality in the Collective Behavior of Open Quantum Systems
4:00pm
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Friday, November 21st, 2025
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Maximizing the Interaction Strength
Miguel Correia,
McGill University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Strategically robust game theory via optimal transport
Nicolas Lanzetti,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Entanglement Bootstrap and Conformal Field Theory
Ting-Chun (David) Lin,
University of California San Diego,